Idea #1: Cloud meets a ginormous LED matrix:
I'm thinking along the lines of the current installation at Madison Square Park - A giant LED matrix of free-standing/hanging lights, shaped like the United States, or perhaps even a world map. Whenever a tweet or facebook status update or Foursquare check-in is registered, a light comes on in that location (on the map). Basically, the map becomes a twinkling collection of social media posts, showing where people are active in social media, and where they are not.
Idea #2: Cloud meets ginormous Capacitive touch boards:
This is a bit crazy, but work with me - Games played via the web on giant room-sized capacitive touch boards. A classroom of kids in the US competing with a classroom of kids in, say, the Netherlands, in a game of human checkers or human chess, in which the kids play the part of the chess/checkers pieces. A game of virtual tag or capture the flag, played across the world on giant capacitance touch boards.
Idea #3: Twitter blows up a bird
This would be extremely hard to implement (as if the other ideas I've come up with wouldn't be), but I like the idea of it as an installation piece. A giant bird model has its torso made up of a big balloon, tracking a person's twitter account. A servo motor turns to push a button that releases air (from an air compressor) into the bird's body every time the person tweets. If he/she tweets enough, the bird is big and robust. If not, the bird deflates. If he/she tweets too much, the bird will over-inflate, and ultimately explode. Pretty cool, huh?
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